Re: KDE installation

2013-06-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
and reboot or run (as root) /usr/local/kde4/etc/rc.d/kdm4 start Then select KDE as your session type and login. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew

Re: IPMI console [Re: Chicken and egg, encrypted root FS on remote server]

2013-02-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
.. 0x00010 device is potential system console 0x00020 device is forced to become system console but uart(4) just has.. 0x00010 device is potential system console -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing

Re: Chicken and egg, encrypted root FS on remote server

2013-02-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the use of the VNC protocol but bastardised enough that normal clients can connect. /rant That inspired me to send a longer rant to Supermicro about it, maybe nothing will come of it but I feel better ;) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: IPMI console [Re: Chicken and egg, encrypted root FS on remote server]

2013-02-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
(4) where 0x20 forced the device in question to be the console. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0

Re: FreeBSD for serious performance?

2012-12-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
to acquire ~10MB/sec from a data acquisition system which has a 96k FIFO (which is ~10 msec of buffering). We use 3ware RAID cards to write to disk on Supermicro boards though, you get what you pay for.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au

Re: Custom FreeBSD usb memstick

2012-11-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
it, but you don't need that, just run.. sh ./make-usb.sh /dev/da1 /usr/obj/usr/src/release/release (Obviously /dev/da1 should be your USB key, check dmesg etc etc) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: trafficserver and raw disk access in FreeBSD

2012-07-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
dump. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: reverse USB driver - is it possible?

2012-06-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
). ISTR someone on the lists was talking about a device by http://i-odd.com which does what you want. I found http://renosite.com/ which is a home brew version of the same basic idea. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about

Re: Can I take a snapshot of the current stack for every thread in some process from outside?

2012-03-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the process to exit the system call to attach (?). DTrace is only activated particular sensors are crossed. So is there such a tool/command? Will gcore do what you want? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about

Re: Rebooting/Halting system from kernel module

2012-01-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice

Re: Checking for other kernel modules on load

2011-12-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 28/12/2011, at 22:07, Chris Rees wrote: Is there a simple way to check for existence of a driver? I could even check for /dev/sndstat, though that doesn't seem elegant to me... kldstat -v, but really /dev/sndstat seems simpler and just as effective. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network

Re: Measuring memory footprint in C/C++ code on FreeBSD

2011-10-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
descriptions of certain fields of struct rusage in the manpage too cryptic to make a proper use of the call. Could someone please point me in the right direction? getrusage should be portable and the man page (at least on FreeBSD) explains each of the fields. -- Daniel O'Connor software

Re: Does anyone use nscd?

2011-10-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 05/10/2011, at 19:13, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Daniel O'Connor docon...@gsoft.com.au writes: I'd be interested in testing your workaround(s) :) It wasn't a workaround, actually, just a one-line change that enables additional logging (when running with from the console -nst) which might

Re: Does anyone use nscd?

2011-10-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
a new user or group I have to restart nscd. I also find if openldap dies (not infrequent) I have to restart nscd after restarting openldap.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many

Re: Does anyone use nscd?

2011-10-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
those who want to use it can in one end to finding someone willing to clean it up and maintain it and enable it by default in the other. (no, I'm not volunteering to maintain it) I'd be interested in testing your workaround(s) :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis

Re: Installation of kernel symbols file in a separate directory [Was: Re: Experiences with FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2]

2011-09-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. By default ${KODIR_SYMBOLS} = ${KODIR}. Hooray, thanks :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E

Re: CAM framework for FLASH devices

2011-09-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
..) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: CAM framework for FLASH devices

2011-09-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
device supports write, read and flush operation. Sector size is 512 byte. But it doesn't support any ATA or SCSI commands except flush. I think you could use make_dev() etc.. although I haven't used it :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: Detach USB Device Driver and Attach it to ugen driver at runtime

2011-09-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
to if the kernel driver that did attach is in use, but I am not sure. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94

Re: best way to get distfiles added to ports.tgz during make release

2011-08-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
faster than pkg_add. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: Best GB Nic for 8.2?

2011-07-31 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. They come in both PCI and PCIe forms. I have a.. Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet Controller (82574L) (that's the chip in it anyway, I can't remember the model number) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: Mapping /dev/gptid numbers to /dev/adXpY

2011-07-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
from that don't match up. Looking at the major/minor numbers of the devices don't help either. Does anyone have an idea? If you run 'gpart list' you will see a list of device names and UUIDs. Mapping it by hand is a bit tedious though.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer

Re: Mapping /dev/gptid numbers to /dev/adXpY

2011-07-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
is probably why I missed it. Anyways, now all I have to do is label my hotswap drawers properly…. Yes, unfortunately(?) 'list' is a standard GEOM command so the part man page doesn't explicitly mention it.. IMO it would be nice if it did. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer

Re: [LIBC] Modfied Version of sscanf

2011-04-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
); exit(0); } -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: Add SUM sysctl

2011-04-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
an upgrade is so that running programs don't find libraries ripped out from under them and then they crash. In that case you don't need to reboot into single user mode, you just make sure there aren't any non-kernel processes (besides sh) which are running. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network

Re: Add SUM sysctl

2011-04-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
that will indicate to my function, that it is in SUM? Well, I give up. You aren't reading thinking about what I'm writing. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from

Re: Add SUM sysctl

2011-04-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
is that the difference is only in your brain. The kernel doesn't know the difference because there isn't one. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew

Re: Add SUM sysctl

2011-04-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
it asks you want to run rather than starting /sbin/init. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347

Re: Add SUM sysctl

2011-04-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
which then asks you.. I wana put it in sh's function, for usage in scripts. Why? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint

Re: Add SUM sysctl

2011-04-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. There IS no solution because it isn't really a problem. You still didn't reply to my asking why you need to know.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew

Re: listing all modules compiled into a kernel instance

2011-03-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
was that kldstat -v would list it, if present, but it does not. A design flaw? Sounds like a bug, but I'm not sure where.. Maybe ucom doesn't appear because it doesn't have a DRIVER_MODULE() declaration (because it isn't a driver). -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis

Re: Scheduler question

2011-02-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 04/02/2011, at 13:26, Daniel O'Connor wrote: I am writing a program which reads from a data acquisition chassis connected to a radar via USB. The interface is a Cypress FX2 and I am communicating via libusb. I ended up writing a kernel driver (thank you hps for usb_fifo_*!) and it has

Re: Scheduler question

2011-02-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 04/02/2011, at 13:26, Daniel O'Connor wrote: I only have about 10 milliseconds of buffering (96kbyte FIFO, 8Mbyte/sec) in the hardware, however I have about 128Mb of USB requests queued up to libusb. hps@ informed me that libusb will only queue 16kbyte (2msec) in the kernel at one time

Re: Scheduler question

2011-02-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
for months without anyone realizing it. :( I am waiting on a new buffer card with 8 times bigger FIFOs which should help I hope.. Also I am writing a kernel driver in the hope it will be more robust :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au

Re: memstick.img is bloated with 7% 2K blocks of nulls

2011-02-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
it to work :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: Scheduler question

2011-02-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
USB and ran diskutil in a loop and it doesn't drop out. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347

Re: Scheduler question

2011-02-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
loading also seems to affect it. Unfortunately I don't have a useful measurement to show the problem - ie I don't have a metric which correlates with the hardware FIFO filling up. This makes the testing rather annoying :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: Scheduler question

2011-02-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 05/02/2011, at 12:43, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 05/02/2011, at 11:09, Ivan Voras wrote: It doesn't allocate memory once it's going, everything is preallocated before the data transfer starts. I'll have a go with mlock() and see what happens. Did you find anything interesting? I'll

Re: Scheduler question

2011-02-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
it stays running... (even if it's rtprio'd) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593

Re: Scheduler question

2011-02-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
what happens. Thanks :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: Scheduler question

2011-02-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
:) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Scheduler question

2011-02-03 Thread Daniel O'Connor
on FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE, Core 2 Duo with ICH9 chipset. Thanks. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94

Re: FreeBSD development on Mac OS

2010-11-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
tweaking first. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: Winbond Watchdog

2010-08-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
unfortunately (at least, not the one I have encountered on my Supermicro board). They're LPC ISA devices, I don't know if they appear in any PNP or ACPI tables though. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: Problem detecting and reacting to serial break

2010-08-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
call back routine to handle break, hence the TTY layer will not see them. The Linux driver does (obviously :) support it and it doesn't look too tricky so you could probably fix it up. It would be nice if the man page mentioned the lack of break support ;( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network

Re: Problem detecting and reacting to serial break

2010-08-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
your request :( However you won't get a SIGINT unless the serial port is the controlling terminal of your process (which it won't be if you just open()'d it) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: Problem detecting and reacting to serial break

2010-08-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. You can recompile your kernel and get sio back and see if that has an effect. Actually I see you used cuaU0 - that is a USB serial dongle so the driver change would have no effect. That said the stack was rewritten between 7 8 too so perhaps that is related. -- Daniel O'Connor software

Re: mallinfo equivalent on FreeBSD

2010-07-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
you use getrusage to find that out? As for system wide stats, I think you could look at sysctl, specifically the vm tree. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose

Re: Missing files device_if.h and bus_if.h

2010-07-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
) { kobjop_t _m; KOBJOPLOOKUP(((kobj_t)_dev)-ops,bus_read_ivar); return ((bus_read_ivar_t *) _m)(_dev, _child, _index, _result); } -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them

Re: PCI Express and drivers

2010-07-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
multiple mmap calls? If I go the multiple mmap route, how do I match a mmap call to a particular BAR? Do I use the size of the allocation? Yes, I think you just key off the requested address in the mmap() call. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: PCI Express and drivers

2010-06-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
with hardware for a frame buffer device or graphics device. It comes with a full license for the synthesis and PCIe IP for the device on that board which is a great deal. Ahh, it does look like a fun toy :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: PCI Express and drivers

2010-06-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
space handle */ PS what board are you using? :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593

Re: ACPI/power implementation causing performance loss with i7/Nehalem turbo boost

2010-03-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
a power savings benefit now. What does sysctl dev.cpu.0.cx_lowest say? And sysctl dev.cpu.$N.cx_supported ? ISTR FreeBSD defaults to a very conservative setting here so you may have to set it manually. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au

Re: ACPI/power implementation causing performance loss with i7/Nehalem turbo boost

2010-03-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
.0.clock=0 mentioned on http://wiki.freebsd.org/TuningPowerConsumption needed to leave C1 at all on SMP systems? Dunno sorry.. The only SMP system I have running a recent FreeBSD only supports C1 :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: Suggestion: rename killall to fkill, but wait five years to phase the new name in

2009-12-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
seriously, why not? killall just killing everything is a fairly dangerous command with almost no use in the real world. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from

Re: Superpages on amd64 FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE

2009-11-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
configuration. :) Yeah I understand that but if you can avoid the huge problem with a deft rearrangement that may help your production environment and give you more time for a real solution :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au

Re: Superpages on amd64 FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE

2009-11-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
it to rotate, seems like a design defect. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20

Re: (Ab)using rcng's features to keep rc.d-style services running should they fail.

2009-10-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
all ports install rc.d scripts which require FOO_enable to be YES. That said a knob like RESTART_SERVICES or similar would be nice. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them

Re: Distributed SSH attack

2009-10-03 Thread Daniel O'Connor
?) for someone to cause you to block a legit IP. If you can, changing the port sshd runs on is by far the simplest work around. Galling as it is to have to change stuff to work around malicious assholes.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: Making bootable USB keys

2009-09-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
a USB stick for booting. I imagine you could munge it into your setup without too much trouble. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG

Re: Making bootable USB keys

2009-09-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
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Re: Parallel port headers

2009-08-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
; if ((fd = open(/dev/ppi0, O_RDWR)) == -1) { printf(Can't open /dev/ppi0\n); exit(1); } exit(0); } Those includes are present on my 7.2 box (upgraded with the last week) and my (oldish) -current box. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network

Re: DTrace probes klds

2009-08-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Alexander Leidinger wrote: Quoting Daniel O'Connor docon...@gsoft.com.au (from Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:13:07 +0930): On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Alexander Leidinger wrote: Quoting Daniel O'Connor docon...@gsoft.com.au (from Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:31:33 +0930): Content-Type

Re: DTrace probes klds

2009-08-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Alexander Leidinger wrote: Quoting Daniel O'Connor docon...@gsoft.com.au (from Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:31:33 +0930): Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Is it possible? the handbook

Re: PCI IRQ latency

2009-08-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Daniel O'Connor docon...@gsoft.com.auwrote: Unfortunately it seems that _something_ blocks interrupts for 4 milliseconds, however I have no real idea how to go about finding what it is.. Does anyone have any

Re: PCI IRQ latency

2009-08-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Unfortunately it seems that _something_ blocks interrupts for 4 milliseconds, however I have no real idea how to go about finding what it is.. Does anyone have any suggestions? (apart from get a new DAQ card, I know this one already :) Actually

DTrace probes klds

2009-08-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Is it possible? the handbook implies not and I can't get it to work, but i could be doing it wrong.. I get fbt traces listed for KLDs (I get new entries for each load of the KLD which seems like a potential problem) but I can't specify an SDT_PROBE and have it work. -- Daniel O'Connor

PCI IRQ latency

2009-08-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
milliseconds, however I have no real idea how to go about finding what it is.. Does anyone have any suggestions? (apart from get a new DAQ card, I know this one already :) Thanks. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing

Re: dd copy of FreeBSD-7.2 won't boot

2009-06-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
to reinit the MBR, then running boot0cfg on it. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593

Re: dd copy of FreeBSD-7.2 won't boot

2009-06-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
has to be run from the same disk There are plenty of BIOSen which will puke on a dangerously dedicated disk. Next time he should partition, label newfs the disk, then copy it over with dump | store. Unless the disk is chock full it will be significantly faster. -- Daniel O'Connor

Loader reading FAT

2009-06-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc Description

Re: Loader reading FAT

2009-06-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Rick C. Petty wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:50:38PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Unfortunately I can't get the loader to read a FAT partition which surprises me because I think it should be able to.. I believe that libstand can do it (I can see the code :) however

Re: Booting from FAT(32)

2009-06-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
://www.roaringpenguin.com/mimedefang/enduser.php3 An attachment named makeusb.sh was removed from this document as it constituted a security hazard. If you require this document, please contact the sender and arrange an alternate means of receiving it. On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Sun

Re: Booting from FAT(32)

2009-06-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
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Booting from FAT(32)

2009-06-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
but it doesn't like loading /boot/loader as a linux kernel and I'm not sure which format to try. I think I can get it to work using the memdisk syslinux thing but that seems like a kludge.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice

Re: Booting from FAT(32)

2009-06-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Syslinux to load the loader then it would do the rest. Although heck how hard can read only FAT support be to write? :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from

Re: Booting from FAT(32)

2009-06-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: I've been meaning to trial it out actually. It sure would be interesting to boot a kernel/mfs off of a DOS bootable FAT USB. I think you can do it if you makefs /boot and feed it to syslinux using memdisk (I plan on trying this today). I used

Re: improve my USB knowledge

2009-05-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
if there is others (BSD related) articles or documents I can/must read. FYI, I work with the new USB stack in 8-CURRENT. libusb is moderately horrible but you can do stuff with it, I wrote a driver for a USB TMC device in Python in an iterative fashion with the pyusb port. -- Daniel O'Connor

Re: Installation from USB pen

2009-05-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
UFS unless you mount it first and then tell it to do an FS install. I have a 7.x based USB installer that is split in 2 - half FAT32 half UFS and it works. Having half FAT32 is handy if you need to edit/add stuff from Windows. It does make it a PITA to build the install key though. -- Daniel

Re: Why kernel kills processes that run out of memory instead of just failing memory allocation system calls?

2009-05-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
process that forked and the child only modified 250Mb you'd be all right because the other pages would be copies. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from

Re: In search of a video card

2009-05-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
be a must for that kind of resolution.. If you have a fast CPU decent pipe to video memory it isn't necessary, but very nice. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from

Re: AVR-GCC compiler options

2009-03-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
you want.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc

Re: Debugging init process.

2009-03-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
that won't work either.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: booting/loading a tool, not kernel

2009-02-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
still thinking about an interactive menu where I could e.g. press '9' to go to Utilities and then could select memtest86 or memtest2009 or cputest :-) That would be very handy IMO. What file do you use to run memtest etc? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software

Re: booting/loading a tool, not kernel

2009-02-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tuesday 17 February 2009 22:37:51 Andriy Gapon wrote: on 17/02/2009 14:00 Daniel O'Connor said the following: On Tuesday 17 February 2009 21:45:19 Andriy Gapon wrote: on 17/02/2009 12:25 Nick Hibma said the following: You are aware of nextboot(8)? That you could use to specify

Re: tcpdump filter for out/in traffic

2009-01-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
or the inverse. eg if you are running a bridge then in out will mean something different. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG

Re: How can I add new binaries to the mfsroot image?

2008-11-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
this. While the sysinstall code is a bit fugly it's not that difficult to hack on (speaking from limited experience :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew

Re: How can I add new binaries to the mfsroot image?

2008-11-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
... You wouldn't have to do so - you could just run a shell script from sysinstall and do what you want. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew

Re: Why does adding /usr/lib32 to LD_LIBRARY_PATH break 64-bit ?binaries?

2008-10-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tuesday 28 October 2008 01:31:16 M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : Daniel O'Connor wrote: : On Friday 24 October 2008 23:20:59 Peter Jeremy wrote: : this will make system trying to bind 32-bit libs to 64-bit

Re: libusb for linux-emulation

2008-10-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
for Xilinx Webpack FPGA programming tools) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F

Re: Why does adding /usr/lib32 to LD_LIBRARY_PATH break 64-bit binaries?

2008-10-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
libraries to Linux binaries with predictable results.. One trick I use for that is to put a symlink in /compat/linux in the place the problematic FreeBSD library is.. That said it would be really nice if it ignored incompatible libraries :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer

Re: lock test from sh script

2008-10-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
) lockf -s -t 0 /path/to/file /bin/echo -n if [ $? -eq 75 ]; then echo file is locked exit fi -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew

Re: kvm on amd64 - 6G?

2008-08-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Kris Kennaway wrote: will now get you this: vm.kvm_free: 547729960960 vm.kvm_size: 549755809792 on HEAD. :-) Holy fat cache Batman! Any chance it could be made a tunable? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au

Re: Can I change the device of the / mount point at boot time.

2008-07-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
and using that. This sounds good. I will try using GEOM first. But if I could achieve interception, as I described earlier, I will go for that rather than redirection. I think using GEOM is the Right Way in FreeBSD for this. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software

Re: Can I change the device of the / mount point at boot time.

2008-07-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
class and using that. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: Can I change the device of the / mount point at boot time.

2008-07-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. After that you can use any device the kernel knows about. As for the virtual device aspect - could you use a geom class to do you want? It's hard to say without an overview of what you actually want to achieve :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: libz.so no found

2008-05-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
pulled out of your saved folder. Mail clients use this header to track what thread a message is in (even if someone changed the subject). -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many

Re: USB Install Method

2008-05-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/4/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb-stick-episode-2 (I haven't actually tried this but it looks OK - I have done it with FreesBIE though) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: Adding .db support to pkg_tools

2008-05-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
matter if the BDB is occasionally corrupted, as long as it can be rebuilt fairly quickly. So long as you can tell it is corrupted.. It's also a drag from a user POV when the tool crashes because the DB is hosed (seen in portupgrade a number of times) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer

Re: Vital Patches for ataraid with Intel Matrix RAID (ICH7)

2008-03-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008, Stef Walter wrote: Daniel O'Connor wrote: I have seen this bug in other ATA RAID implementations (VIA Promise) too. From what I can tell this part of your patch is general to all ATA RAID arrays, right? Yes, a small part. The part that will write out the RAID

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